“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is the truth.”

– Aristotle 

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All quotations without a footnote link are from Thomson & Missner, On Aristotle, Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 2000. 

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Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. and died in 322 B.C., which means he lived to be roughly 62 years old.  We would say he died young, yet no single individual did more to influence the history of thought than Aristotle. “He single-handedly founded the sciences of Logic, Biology and Psychology.”¹   (more…)